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All Levels Welcome
Location:
395 Seabrook Road - Studio F
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In this hands on 3-Day Workshop, learn to create portrait sculptures that capture more than a face—they reveal a soul. In this immersive weekend intensive, you’ll master Chris Riccardo’s proven approach to sculpture with character through caricature. Discover how strategic observation and fearless distortion combine to create portraits that are more truthful than realism alone could ever be.
This isn’t about copying faces. It’s about interpreting personality, amplifying essence, and sculpting with confidence and artistic courage.
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All Levels - Some Experience Preferred
Location:
395 Seabrook Road - Studio F
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Join Jen for a lively two-day workshop that turns simple slabs into dynamic, dimensional pots. Through engaging demos, Jen will share her favorite ways to build texture with handmade stamps, inflate and alter slabs, and transform quick clay sketches into dependable templates.
You’ll also get a short hands-on session to play with Jen’s Pottery Patterns (template sets) and try out key techniques like darting – without the pressure to make finished work.
Whether you’re a handbuilder or thrower, you’ll head home with fresh ideas, practical tools, and a renewed excitement to explore what’s possible with clay.
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February 24th-25th 1pm-4pm
April 14th-15th 1pm-4pm,
Level:
All Levels Welcome
Location:
395 Seabrook Road - Studio F
Instructor:
In this fun hands-on, 2-day workshop, students will create whimsical fairy houses. First, with instructor and individual guidance using handbuilding techniques like slab construction and decorative attachments, each student will complete a unique fairy house of their own. On the second day, the group will bring their creations to life by painting them with underglaze. Clay, underglaze and most studio tools will be provided.
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Location:
395 Seabrook Road - Studio E
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Designed for students with bisque-fired clay pieces, this 2-Day workshop offers hands-on guidance to bring each sculpture to a fully finished state.(no more firings) Whether applying a “cold finish” / “patina” for the first time or refining an existing surface, participants will receive both technical instruction and aesthetic insight to help determine the best approach for their work.
Participants are welcome to bring multiple pieces and use all materials while they are available.
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Level:
All Levels Welcome`
Location:
395 Seabrook Rd - Studio F
Instructor:
Take your ceramic surface decoration to new heights with Sgraffito. Sgraffito, an Italian word meaning “to scratch”, is an ancient pottery technique involving carving through a top layer of slip to reveal a contrasting colored clay beneath. In this workshop, Renee will teach you how she uses this technique with underglazes, to adorn her pots and tiles.
The workshop will begin with a short slide presentation, a demonstration and then the students will practice this technique with a leather hard pot they have supplied or a tile, which will be on hand for them.
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Location:
395 Seabrook Road - Studio E
Begin by examining the overall body shape with discussion on composition.
Construction starts on the hollow clay form focusing the eye on simplification of shape, support structures, adhesion and compression of the clay. Demonstrations will be given on the following elements:
- Skin, scales, folds and feathers
- Texture and Pattern
- Muscular definition
- Tentacles
- Hair, eyes and ears
Surface finishing techniques and ideas for bases.
Participants will be able to make their own animal (no bigger than 12 “) and should bring imagery of the subject they would like to create front, back, profile and close up of the face.